Senior Engineer, Developer Platforms and Generative AI

About the role

The Developer Platforms organization provides cloud infrastructure and tooling to 100+ teams and 750+ engineers in NYT Product Engineering through an internal developer platform. The DevEx Platforms team (6 engineers) focuses on developer experience and workflow automation. We're now expanding into more AI-assisted developer workflows using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot to support debugging, migrations, test generation, and everyday development in a safe, measurable way.

Responsibilities

• Design and build GenAI-powered developer tooling: prompts, IDE integrations, Cursor/Claude rules, and telemetry to understand how they’re used.
• Build and run the GenAI developer platform: Tools, services, and integrations leveraging LiteLLM to power both local and background/long-running agents, providing auth, configuration, and LLM routing.
• Own guardrails and observability for agentic workflows: integrate with Datadog, DX, and FinOut, define sensible standards, and make sure agents interact with Jira, GitHub, and internal platforms in a safe, auditable way.
• Work closely with engineers and managers across Product Engineering to understand how they build software today and to design solutions that actually fit the way they work.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience improving developer experience through workflows, documentation, and capabilities of the internal platform
• Experience designing and building cloud native applications using Golang
• Hands-on experience building software using GenAI tools, like GitHub's Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands on experience managing and deploying resources in AWS
• 2+ years of experience managing workloads deployed on Kubernetes
• Experience in prompt engineering or building AI-powered tools

Pay

$140,000 - $160,000 USD

Schedule

Limited on-call responsibilities; the schedule will be set when you join.